tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post9005324832148569475..comments2024-03-27T21:42:56.131-05:00Comments on 1001plus: Oscar Got It Wrong!: Best Actress 1970SJHoneywellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-55082987588835119142018-04-07T16:06:20.087-05:002018-04-07T16:06:20.087-05:00Yet another one I haven't seen.
There are ti...Yet another one I haven't seen. <br /><br />There are times when I think I do these specifically because it gets me other movies to watch.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-60500306900148390562018-04-07T13:49:01.272-05:002018-04-07T13:49:01.272-05:00From among the nominees I've only reviewed Lov...From among the nominees I've only reviewed Love Story, although ages ago I did see Ryan's Daughter.<br /><br />Since this seems to be such a weak year, Shirley MacLaine in Two Mules For Sister Sara would deserve some consideration.aceblackblog.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08404695143187261837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-28693009388495654982018-04-06T18:48:05.106-05:002018-04-06T18:48:05.106-05:00It's yet another reminder why I do these twice...It's yet another reminder why I do these twice a week. As I've said any number of times, these posts aren't a celebration of Oscar but an accounting.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-44587795975488414672018-04-06T17:57:11.389-05:002018-04-06T17:57:11.389-05:00That's okay since the Academy seemed to miss i...That's okay since the Academy seemed to miss it too. There can be no other explanation how in such a weak year she was ignored when it should have been a direct walk to the podium for her. joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-84957783883308214902018-04-06T17:21:19.914-05:002018-04-06T17:21:19.914-05:00Ah, dammit! I missed Cable Hogue going through the...Ah, dammit! I missed <i>Cable Hogue</i> going through the films of this year. Stella Stevens is a fine addition to the list.<br /><br />It's such a weird year for this award.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-81093428892543290232018-04-06T17:14:10.197-05:002018-04-06T17:14:10.197-05:00Geesh this category this time out is filled with v...Geesh this category this time out is filled with very good actresses, well except for Ali MacGraw, in indifferent roles or the wrong placement. <br /><br />It’s not so much that I hated Love Story that makes me place Ali last. It was too insipid to engender that level of emotion for me but the fact that I think Ali MacGraw’s performance is probably the worst one ever nominated for Best Actress. I’ve seen her in interviews and she’s comes across as a lovely, intelligent, engaging woman but hand her lines and turn the camera her way and the woman turns into a tree!!!<br /><br />I’ve seen Sarah Miles in other things and she’s usually good and quite insightful and she’s not bad in Ryan’s Daughter but the film is bloated and she doesn’t do anything to make you forget that. Her work is solid but unexceptional in a part that NEEDS someone vivid like Julie Christie to anchor the story. <br /><br />I love Jane Alexander and she does what she can with her role in Great White Hope but her part in what should have been a riveting story deflates as the film rambles and rambles and rambles on greatly diminishing her impact. <br /><br />Which brings me to Glenda Jackson. I’m a much bigger fan of hers than you are-so excited she has returned to the stage!-but she’s a supporting player in her film and quite simply doesn’t belong here. If she had been nominated in support I still don’t know that I’d pick her as a winner but I wouldn’t have objected to her getting one. And yes the film is all about and belongs to Alan Bates. <br /><br />So that puts me in the same place as you with Carrie Snodgrass. I loathed her film and the other rancid people in it. However she manages to rise above the awfulness and gave a very fine interpretation of a woman that I found pathetic but that she made me feel for. But in an open field she won’t even make my short list. <br /><br />I haven’t seen your first two suggestions for alternates but I hate, hated Wanda and wasn’t very impressed with Barbara Loden in the film. Catherine Deneuve’s performance in Tristana is quite accomplished but I disliked the film so much I can’t recall much more than that I thought she was the best thing in it by a large margin. <br /><br />I do however have a whole alternate slate to replace what we were given. Mine would run this way:<br /><br />Julie Christie-The Go-Between<br />Liza Minnelli-Tell Me You Love Me, Junie Moon<br />Eva Marie Saint-Loving<br />Stella Stevens-The Ballad of Cable Hogue<br />Tuesday Weld-I Walk the Line<br /><br />With Ingrid Bergman as a runner up for A Walk in the Spring Rain. <br /><br />But my winner would be Stella Stevens who is far superior to anyone actually nominated in Cable Hogue. A wonderful actress who came along at the wrong time for her particular talents.joel65913https://www.blogger.com/profile/14526657073681774683noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-19235777654464439262018-04-06T15:15:39.932-05:002018-04-06T15:15:39.932-05:00I'd love to count Sally Kellerman, except that...I'd love to count Sally Kellerman, except that was clearly a supporting role. It's a really down year for this category.SJHoneywellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13550007053995112090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3166297507174717122.post-53015407106216058952018-04-06T15:02:34.320-05:002018-04-06T15:02:34.320-05:00I'm totally out of my depth on this one since ...I'm totally out of my depth on this one since I haven't seen any of these nor anything else that might be Oscar-worthy from that year. That is, unless you want to count Sally Kellerman in M*A*S*H.Dellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05634519605152190304noreply@blogger.com